The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 103
The Queen gave money to the old woman, and bought the apple from her.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: give, buy · To what, where: money, old woman, apple
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:866): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bought | cc |
| 11 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 apple | det |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bought | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Queen | money | the old woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to woman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | buy | past | the Queen not said here | the apple | from Queen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from she=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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